1 Kings 5:13-17
1 Kings 5:13
Now King Solomon conscripted forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered thirty thousand men.
1 Kings 5:14
Then he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they were in Lebanon for a month, and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced laborers.
1 Kings 5:15
Now Solomon had seventy thousand porters, and eighty thousand stonemasons in the mountains,
1 Kings 5:16
besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were in charge of the project and ruled over the people who were doing the work.
1 Kings 5:17
Then the king issued orders, and they quarried large stones, valuable stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.